Research Interests: Research Interests: ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly Aristotelian and Socratic ethics. Cashen's research focuses on the relationship between ancient and contemporary conceptions of well-being and happiness. Recent publications include "The Ugly, the Lonely, and the Lowly: Aristotle on the External Goods," “Happiness, Eudaimonia, and Descriptive Adequacy,” and “Cephalus and Euthydemus: Plato on Money and Virtue”.

Other:Considering a major in Philosophy? Dr. Cashen is SIUE's Mentor Coordinator.

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Michelle Catalano

Instructor

Peck Hall, Room 0204

mcatala@siue.edu / 618-650-5449

MBA, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

MA in Philosophy, University of Missouri- St. Louis

Teaching Interests: Critical thinking/reasoning courses (such as Reasoning & Argumentation), any introductory courses with first-time philosophy students (such as Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics), interdisciplinary courses with students who are non-philosophy majors (such as Business Ethics).

Research Interests: Critical thinking/reasoning, applied ethics (including business, distributive and environmental), philosophy of economics and any areas of intersection between them.

Other: Member of the American Philosophical Association and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers; member of the SIUE community since 2002; personal homepage is here.

Judith Crane

Teaching Interests: history of philosophy (especially early modern philosophy), metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology.

Research Interests:early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of biology, with particular interest in natural kinds. Representative publications include: "Locke's Theory of Classification," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, May 2003; "On the Metaphysics of Species," Philosophy of Science, April 2004; "Identity and Distinction in Spinoza's Ethics" (with Ron Sandler), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, June 2005; "Species Concepts and Natural Goodness" (with Ron Sandler), Carving Nature at the Joints, MIT Press, 2011, and "Biological-Mereological Coincidence," Philosophical Studies, November 2012.

Susan Dieleman

Assistant Professor

Peck Hall, Room 1216

sdielem@siue.edu / (618) 650-3231

Ph.D., York University, 2011

Research Interests: Professor Dieleman’s current research is in the area of political philosophy, and especially theories of deliberative democracy. She is particularly interested in bringing insights from feminist philosophy and pragmatist philosophy to bear on issues of political epistemology. She has published work in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Contemporary Pragmatism, The Pluralist, Social Philosophy Today, and Feminist Philosophical Quarterly.

Teaching Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Applied Ethics

Other: Professor Dieleman is on the Executive Boards of the Illinois Philosophical Association and the Richard Rorty Society. She is also a member of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

Saba Fatima

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 2218

sfatima@siue.edu / (618) 650-2175

Ph.D., Binghamton University, 2012

Research Interests: Professor Fatima's research interests include exploring Muslim-American identity and Contemprary Islamic Thought within a framework of feminist and race theory; Social and Political; and Non-ideal theory. Her recent publications include a chapter on microagression (Routledge 2017) and an article examining gendered space allocation at two of the most holy Islamic sites (Hypatia ﻿2016). Other Recently published works include: "Liberalism and the Muslim-American Predicament" in Social Theory and Practice (2014), "Muslim-American Scripts" in Hypatia (2013) and "Presence of Mind" in Social Philosophy Today (2012).

Teaching Interests: Islamic Thought, Philosophy of Race, World Religion, Feminist Theory (all with special emphasis on the social and political), and Reasoning & Argumentation.

In 2017, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released the 4-CD set “Pacific Northwest Medicine Songs of the Four Seasons”https://folkways.si.edu/johnny-moses/pacific-northwest-medicine-songs-of-the-four-seasons sung by Salish culture-bearer Johnny Moses, produced by Gregory Fields. Accompanying the audio collection is Fields’ article “Medicine Songs of the Four Seasons from the Straits and Coast Salish,” available as a PDF on the Folkways website.

Erik Krag

Teaching Interests: Applied ethics, particularly medical and business ethics; death and dying, particularly as it pertains to euthanasia, and critical thinking.

Research Interests: Theories of just health distribution; distributive justice generally, especially as it relates to socialized structures of oppression; the ethics of euthanasia; the ethics of pharmaceutical marketing; and the ethics of enhancement technologies, especially as it pertains to the impact of psycho-pharmaceuticals on personal identity, freedom and moral responsibility.

William Larkin

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 2207

wlarkin@siue.edu / (618) 650-2643

Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara, 1998

Research Interests: Professor Larkin's research is primarily focused on two projects in contemporary analytic epistemology: (a) using a certain pragmatic norm of assertion to undermine contextualists, closure-deniers, and skeptics; and (b) analyzing warrant in terms of a particular belief's cognitive consequences rather than its manner of production. Some publications representative of other ongoing research interests include "Shoemaker on Moore's Paradox and Self-Knowledge" in Philosophical Studies, and "Persons, Animals, and Bodies" in Southwest Philosophical Review.

Teaching Interests: logic, the history of early analytic philosophy, and interdisciplinary courses on war and peace and global problems.

Greg Littmann

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 2203

glittma@siue.edu / (618) 650-3266

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Research Interests: Public philosophy, the philosophy of logic (especially paradoxes), metaphysics (especially mind, time and change), and epistemology (especially skepticism). Representative publications include “Writing Philosophy for the Public is a Moral Obligation”, Essays in Philosophy, Jan 2014; “Dialetheism and the Graphic Liar”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, March 2012; “Moments of Change”, Acta Analytica, February 2012; “Darwin’s Doubt Defended: Why Evolution Supports Skepticism”, Philosophical Papers, March 2011; and “Seriously Funny: Mockery as a Political Weapon” in The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy, edited by Jason Holt, Blackwell Publishing, August 2013.

Bryan Lueck

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 3213

blueck@siue.edu / (618) 650-2096

Ph.D. - Pennsylvania State University in 2007

Research Interests: Professor Lueck's research focuses on issues in contemporary Continental philosophy, especially as they pertain to ethics. At present, he is particularly interested in rearticulating some of the central concepts of Kantian ethics with reference to the work of such philosophers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres, and Jean- Luc Nancy. Representative publications include "Toward a Serresean Reconceptualization of Kantian Respect," Philosophy Today, 2008; "Kant's Fact of Reason as Source of Normativity," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 2009; and "The Event of Sense in Lyotard's Discours, figure", The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2010.

Erik Meade

Instructor

Peck Hall, Room 0207

emeade@siue.edu / (618) 650-2257

M.A. Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Research Interests: Philosophical Interest include a wide range of topics in analytic philosophy especially in epistemology and the philosophy of religion. He wrote his thesis on the topic of Alvin Plantinga and Gettier cases.

Teaching Interests: He is particularly interested in teaching Critical Thinking and Deductive Logic.

Other: He is a member of the American Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Christopher Pearson

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 2212

chpears@siue.edu / (618) 650- 5337

PhD University of Washington 2007

Research Interests: Professor Pearson's primary research interests lie in the philosophy of biology, especially issues related to developmental biology. Professor Pearson also has research interests in environmental ethics as well as questions pertaining to the relationship between science and religion.

Alison N.C. Reiheld

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 3214

areihel@siue.edu / (618) 650-2574

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2010

Teaching Interests: applied ethics of any stripe as well as science and technology studies; philosophy of memory; medical ethics with special attention to interactions between clinical personnel and between the clinic and society; critical thinking and informal logic; medicalization and shifting definitions of disease; philosophical critiques of gender/sex and related value systems.

Other: Dr. Reiheld was a member of the APA Committee for Pre-college Instruction in Philosophy and is on the editorial board of (formerly co-editor of) the journal Questions: Philosophy With Children. Questions publishes original philosophical work by pre-college students K-12.Dr. Reiheld also sits on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and is the Editor of IJFAB's scholarly blog (http://www.ijfab.org/blog/). She is also the Director of of the Women's Studies interdisciplinary program at SIUE. You can find her CV here.

Edward Schallert

Instructor

Peck Hall, Room 0228

eschall@siue.edu / (618) 650-2683

M.A. SIUE ,1990

Research Interests: Ed's thesis was a translation and commentary of a Latin document attributed by some to Ockham. Research interests include Ockham, Scotus, John of Salisbury, and C.S. Peirce as well.

Matthew Schunke

Associate Professor

Peck Hall, Room 3232

mschunk@siue.edu/ (618) 650-5363

Ph.D., Rice University, 2009

Research Interests:Professor Schunke earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University. His research area is post-Kantian philosophy of religion and he has published on Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion. His most recent article, “Revealing Givenness: The Problem of Non-Intuited Phenomena in Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology” appeared in Studia Phaenomenologica. His current research focuses on

Teaching Interests: Professor Schunke teaches philosophy of religion, Christian Thought, and World Religions. He also teaches an Honors Freshman Seminar “Happiness and Significance in Life.”

Robert Bruce Ware

Teaching Interests: social and political philosophy, nineteenth century philosophy, Marxism, ancient philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, physics, and biology.

Research Interests: He is the author of Hegel: The Logic of Self-Consciousness and the Legacy of Subjective Freedom (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and the co-author, with Enver Kisriev, of Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the North Caucasus (M.E. Sharp, 2009). He has published numerous articles on Hegel's philosophy, and on the politics and religion of the North Caucasus region.

Other: He has published in journals including The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, History of Political Thought, The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Central Asian Studies, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Current History, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Global Dialogue, The Review of Higher Education, and The New Review. His articles have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The International Herald Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United Press International, Pravda, The Moscow Times, The St. Petersburg Times, The Russia Journal, The Hindu, Asia Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, The Central Asia Caucasus Analyst, and many others. He has been an invited speaker at meetings, lectures, and seminars worldwide, has testified before US Congressional Committees, and has been an invited speaker at the White House. He has a personal homepage.